Sunday, March 20, 2011

Gotta get down to the big antiwar protest...

...but while I'm waiting for the new mocha-hued repaint job on my giant papier-mâché George Bush head to dry (luckily the big ears were easily repurposed) I'd like to leave you with this charming open letter to the Principled Antiwar Left, which snarks pretty much everything I wanted to snark, and gets in a last boot to the ribs with

Meanwhile, apparently Kha... Qa... Gaddafi has rolled out footage of gurneys full of dead human shields, which the media vampires (who, let's not forget, "Remember the Maine!"-ed us into this in the first place) are gleefully rebroadcasting, since Libyan State Propaganda TV doesn't have the signal strength to get its message out unaided. Thanks to advanced seeker technology, our bombs seem to home in unerringly on women, children, and Imam O'Flanagan from the Needy Orphans' Ministry.

Hey, CNN, since this war was half your idea in the first place, can't you at least go 72 hours before switching sides?

I know that we haven't historically needed an act of war to kick Libya all the way to the shores of Tripoli, but I though that was all supposed to be before Obama redeemed us from the sins of our "imperialism". Despite what he may think the UN is not our legislative body.

Who said it? Fill in the blanks. I guess the first five words probably are a dead giveaway...

"Now let me be clear — I suffer no illusions about ________. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.

He’s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

But I also know that ______ poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the ______ economy is in shambles, that the ______ military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history."

Well, there is no way your country can do anything right. You interfere it's wrong, you don't interfere it's wrong, you send aid it's wrong (goes to wrong people or something), you don't send aid it's very wrong and you are selfish bastards (but then you guys are selfish bastards anyway). You probably really should start doing things only in your own interest, that's what you will be accused of anyway no matter what you do (if you can elect people smart enough for that). There is no way you could please the rest of the world (or your own lefties, it looks like).

And that conclusion is based on what I read from local papers (local for me = Finland).

Marja, "if you can elect people smart enough" - There are some, but even most of those are more interested in getting the next election (or money).

And the others can seen smart in a strange way. Our President, following the lead of J. Kerry, recently proposed that oil companies which are not drilling on land they lease from the government, mostly because the government will not allow access (a road mught destroy an ant nest) nor actually issue a permit to use the land that way, should be fined for not drilling. Brilliant!

"One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans."

Tam is probably right; if Germany continued to be led by men with Bismarck's vision, there likely would not have been a Great War. But that is what happens when a country uses the "inbred defectives" system of determining who leads it.